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Marylou Ambrose

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Marylou Ambrose is an award-winning medical author with thirty years of experience writing for magazines, books, and newspapers. She has a BS in journalism from Syracuse University and has authored or coauthored many books and plays.

Marylou's Books

Diabetes can affect anyone from children to teens, and even to Olympic athletes, and famous performers. This informative book will answer your questions about diabetes: what it is and what it does to the body, how glucose and insulin work, why not every diabetic has to inject insulin, how a healthy diet and exercise can help people avoid Type 2 diabetes, and how amazing advances in treatment may someday make insulin injections a thing of the past...Read More

Everyone has heard of eating disorders. Readers and viewers of television, magazines, tabloids, and the Internet are kept up to date on which celebrities are too thin and which are too fat. But how much do people really understand about these psychological illnesses...Read More

Straightforward information about alcohol, from the physical effects it has on someone's body to reasons why people drink, underage drinking, alcohol's effects on the body, and its influence on behavior and mental health...Read More

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INVESTIGATING COCAINE AND CRACK takes a look at the serious and potentially deadly consequences associated with crack and cocaine abuse. Personal stories and the latest statistics bring the dangers of this extremely habit-forming drug into focus...Read More

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Meth . . . crank . . . ice . . . No matter what you call it, methamphetamine is an extremely addictive drug. It is expensive and gives users what appears to endless energy. In INVESTIGATE METHAMPHETAMINES, authors Marylou Ambrose and Veronica Deisler look at the epidemic spread of methamphetamines abuse in the United States...Read More

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Diabetes is increasingly a very real part of life for teens and their family members. This great addition to the INVESTIGATING DISEASES series answers teens' questions about this disease. Learn the history of diabetes as well as signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, important prevention tips, and stories about how real teens live with diabetes...Read More